CFP: Writing the American Wilderness (9/15/06; NEMLA, 3/1/07-3/4/07)

full name / name of organization:

strodet_at_ncc.edu

contact email:

strodet@ncc.edu

CFP

NEMLA ANNUAL CONVENTION

Baltimore, Maryland

March 1-4 2007

Topic: Writing the Wilderness The panel invites papers that examine how Early American authors like Franklin, Crevecoeur, Jefferson, Brockden Brown wrote the wilderness as part of nation building. Send abstracts to Timothy Strode, Nassau Community College: strodet_at_ncc.edu

Panelists renew/join and register no later than Nov. 30, 2006 for the 2007 membership year or risk being dropped from the convention program. You need not be a NEMLA member in order to submit a paper for consideration and you may submit to more than one session. However for the Convention, members may present at only ONE panel, though members may participate in a panel and a roundtable or other alternative session.